غَرَضٌ

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غَرَضٌ A butt, a mark, or an object of aim, at which one shoots, or throws; a thing that thou settest up (مَا أَمْثَلْتَهُ) to shoot or throw at: pl. أَغْرَاضٌ. It is said in a trad., لَا تَتَّخِذُوا شَيْئًا فِيهِ الرَّوحُ غَرَضًا [Ye shall not take a thing in which is the vital principle as a butt]. And hence one says, النَّاسُ أَغْرَاضُ المَنِيَّةِ [Mea are the butts of destiny, or of death]: and جَعَلْتَنِى غَرَضًا لِشَتْمِكَ [Thou madest me, or hast made me, a butt for thy reviling].
2 And hence, An object of aim or endeavour or pursuit, of desire or wish, or of intention or purpose: a scope; or any end which one endeavours, or seeks, or intends, or purposes, to attain: an object of want, and of desire: the advantage, or good, which one seeks, or endeavours, or purposes, to attain, or obtain, from a thing: so much used in this tropical sense as to be, in this sense, conventionally regarded as proper. You say, غَرَضُهُ كَذَا His object of aim or endeavour or pursuit, &c., is such a thing: or his object of want, and of desire, is such a thing And فَعَلَ لِغَرَضٍ صَحِيحٍ He did, or acted, for a just, or right, object of aim &c. And فَهِمْتُ غَرَضَكَ I understood, or have understood, thine object of aim &c., or thine intention; syn. قَصْدَكَ. [See another ex. voce غَرِضَ, of which it is also the Verbal.Noun]

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